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Ingredients
Serves: 6

15g caster sugar

1 teaspoon cornflour

50ml full fat milk

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

2 egg yolks

1 teaspoon butter

60g almond meal

1 teaspoon cornflour

1/2 cup (90g) icing sugar

60g butter, softened

1 egg

4 large pears, sliced

1 sweet pastry sheet

DirectionsPreparation:40min › Cook:35min › Ready in:1hour15min

Put half of the sugar and cornflour in a saucepan over low heat. Add the milk and vanilla essence. Bring to the boil stirring constantly.

In a large bowl whisk 2 egg yolks with the remaining sugar. Pour in a little bit of the hot milk mixture then pour everything back into the saucepan and cook 3 minutes after the mixture starts to boil stirring constantly.

Remove from heat, pour the mixture into a bowl and let cool for 10 minutes. Once the mixture has cooled down add the butter whisking briskly. Set aside.

In another bowl sift together the almond meal, cornflour and icing sugar. Add the softened butter then egg stirring constantly with a spatula. Stir in the milk mixture then almond-mixture and mix until smooth.

Preheat oven to 190 degrees C.

Line a pie dish with the pastry sheet then pour in the creamy mixture and smooth it with a spatula. Place the sliced pears in a circle on the mixture.

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by RosemaryC

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Are you sure that it is just 50ml of milk? By the time I had boiled the milk and a teaspoon of cornflour there was no way I could 'pour' it into anything. It was solid. I opted out at this point and did another recipe.
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20 Oct 2012
(Review from Allrecipes UK & Ireland)